However there are some very good trimmer heads available that ARE designed to do the job, e.g. they were designed with only one criteria in mind: cost of manufacture!

I got so frustrated with the line spooler/head problems that, after a few years, I would have rather used a pair of hand shears to do the lawn edging!Ĭonsidering that 2-stroke engines are pretty good now-a-days, I would argue that the trimmer head is the most important functional part of a line trimmer.Īnd when you look around at the variety available from the major line trimmer manufacturers you start to appreciate why the heads fitted to Ryobi's entry I also had - note past tense - the same problems with my Ryobi 'Grass Scopion' line trimmer Model RCT2800A. If you know of a way to keep the line from doing this, or a replacement head that will not do this, please let me know. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it just me? I don't get it. I spend more time re loading the line than I do trimming.

I'll be trimming along and will let the trimmer idle for a moment while walking to another part of the yard and when I rev the engine to start trimming again the line disappears into the head. I have the right size diameter line and am following the line installation directions exactly as stated. My problem is this: The trimmer line always spins (slips) back into the head which forces me to shut the unit off, unscrew the head and the re feed the trimmer line into the head and wind it up again. I have the weed trimmer and blower attachments. It is the model that has a few different attachments that can be used with it. I own a Ryobi Weed Trimmer, gas powered about 3 years old.

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